QA Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Quality Assurance (QA)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing QA 17 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 6.20% 1.13% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.29% 5.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £490 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.33% -4.55% +46.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Knutsford

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 70 37 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 25.55% 20.90% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 30 1
10th Percentile £356 £309 -
25th Percentile £375 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £406 £300
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% +35.42% +10.29%
75th Percentile £500 £565 -
90th Percentile £554 £695 -
Cheshire median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.55% -4.76% +40.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

QA job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Knutsford over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) Datadog
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) JIRA
2 12 (70.59%) Git
3 8 (47.06%) GitLab
3 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (35.29%) JUnit
5 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (52.94%) Banking
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 11 (64.71%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Finance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Spring
1 13 (76.47%) Spring Boot
2 12 (70.59%) REST
3 7 (41.18%) JMS
4 6 (35.29%) Kafka
4 6 (35.29%) React
4 6 (35.29%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) PMI
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (58.82%) DevOps
5 9 (52.94%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (52.94%) SDLC
6 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
7 7 (41.18%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 7 (41.18%) Scrum
8 6 (35.29%) AI
8 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (35.29%) Microservices
8 6 (35.29%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (35.29%) TDD
9 5 (29.41%) Migration
9 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (29.41%) Release Management
9 5 (29.41%) Sprint Retrospective
10 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) Java
3 7 (41.18%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CBAP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) MBA
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO 20022
1 7 (41.18%) PSD2
1 7 (41.18%) SEPA
2 1 (5.88%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI